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The application of fast track procedures in non-urgent cases.
This doctoral dissertation deals with fast track procedures under Belgian law and aims at investigating their place within the general rules ofcivil procedure. Charmed by the advantages of a quick procedure, the Belgian legislator has deemed it fit (often for politically correct reasons) to apply the procedural rules of fast track procedures to specific legal disputes which, however, do not necessarily require an urgent solution. As a result, a larger group of disputes are dealt with more quickly,but at the same time this leads to a bigger delay for all the other disputes, which have been less worthy of the legislators attention, and towhich the general rules of procedure still apply.
Therefore, the central research question of this doctoral dissertation is how wecan theoretically define urgency enabling us to make a (preferably robust) distinction between cases which require an urgent solution and whichdo not. To this end we investigate the several fast track procedures inthe Belgian Code of Civil Procedure, and the way in which they do (not)achieve a faster and more efficient administration of justice.
Therefore, the central research question of this doctoral dissertation is how wecan theoretically define urgency enabling us to make a (preferably robust) distinction between cases which require an urgent solution and whichdo not. To this end we investigate the several fast track procedures inthe Belgian Code of Civil Procedure, and the way in which they do (not)achieve a faster and more efficient administration of justice.
Date:19 May 2009 → 12 Sep 2017
Keywords:Fast track procedures
Disciplines:Law
Project type:PhD project